In 1860, Pompeii’s director of excavations Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a way to, in a sense, bring them back to life by creating plaster casts out of the voids left by the decay of organic ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii […] ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in ...

This is a cast of the famous bronze statuette of a dancing faun or satyr from the Tuscan impluvium of the House of the Faun at Pompeii (Pompeii VI ... This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell ...

In a study published Wednesday in Current Biology, researchers detail how DNA samples from Pompeii’s plaster body casts reveal surprises about sex, family ties and the origins of those who lived there ...

Most famously, Fiorelli also developed a technique to pour cement into the negative spaces in the ash left by decomposed bodies, creating casts of the fallen citizens of Pompeii and providing some ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.